Acetylene-gas generator.



No. 664,029. Patented Dec; I8, |900. V-. T. WEATHERS.

AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR.

(Appnmim-med my 1s, 1900.)

(No Model.)

Vein i012 z; (yk-zi TATFS VICTOR T. WFAT'HFRS, OF IOFF, CALIFORNIA,AssIeNoR oF Two-THIRDs To DAVID MeOALL, oF SAME PLACE.

ACi-:TYLEN E-eAs GEN ERAToF.

SPEGIFIGATION forming pm of Letters Patent Ne. 664,029,- deted December1s, 1960.

. App1ieetionieue1'y1, i960.; seein No. 24,049. (No moan.)

To all wiz/m it may concern: present. The-mainr tank 1 is, with theother Be it known that I, VICTOR T. WEATHERS, parts shown, in a portableform, 2 being the a citizen of the United States of America, regas-holding vessel, 3 the carbid-containing siding at Ione, county ofAmador, and State one set `within the double walled annular 55 5 ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and main tank 1, and 4L aWater-supply vessel useful Improvements in Acetylene-Generamounted onthe gas-holding one. tors; and Ihereby declare the following to be 6 isa pipe through which gas passes from afull, clear,and exactdescriptionof the same, the vessel 2 to the place of use, and 5 calreference beinghad to the accompanying cium carbidplaced in the vessel 3, ready for 6oIo drawings, forming a part of this specification. use.

My invention relates to acetylene-gas genp A bail 7 slides loosely inthe lugs 8 on the erators and to certain improvements therein, tank orvessel land serves to some extent as and especially to a means ofaccurately regua guide for the movable vessels 2 and L1, also lating theamount of water supplied to the limits their rangeupward and in the caseof 65 I5 carbid and consequent controlof the amount portableI apparatusand when the vessel 2 is of gas evolved therefrom. empty or partiallylled serves as a b'ail by My improvement consists in the introducl meansof which the whole is handled or tion into the water-supplying conduitor pasmoved. sage of a compressible and absorbent sub- Thewater-.diffusing device9 (shown in part 7o zo stance, preferablyasponge,that will upon the at Fig. II) is formed of perforated tubular relief ofpressure therefrom arrest, absorb, arms'. radiating from a commoncentral disand draw back the flowing water, instantly charge-pipe 13andrests on the top of the stopping the supply; and. it valso consistsin carbid-*containing vessel 3, as shown in Fig. other features of aconstructive nature, here- I, and is provided with a hopper-like vessel75 z5 inafter explained, 4and illustrated by drawl10, containing asponge 12, so that water eX- u ings accompanying and forminga part ofthis pressed from the sponge flows down the pipe 1 specification. Y 13into the diffusing device 9, overflows at The objects of. my inventionare to attain. `the orifices 14, and falls on the carbid 5. completecontrol of the water-supply,and con- Vhen the vessels 2 and 4 descend bythe 8o 3o sequently of the rate at which gas is generescape of gasthrough the pipe 6, a perforated ated, and to provideasilnple andinexpensive disk on the stem 17 of the valve 18 enters apparatus thatdoes not need adjustment or the vessel 10, presses on the sponge 12, andskilled attention of any kind, also one the expels water therefrom,which drains down dimensions of which will be small in proporthrough thepipe 13 and fallson the carbid 5. 85

tion to the duty performed. The sponge 12 is kept moist by water fromReferring to the drawings, Figure I is a tank 1 passing through valve 18and perfocentral vertical section through an acetylenerations 19 of disk15 whenever the valve 18 gas-generating apparatus constructed accordisopened by pressure of disk 15 upon sponge ing to my invention, and Fig.Il a top View 12, as explained below. This at once evolves 9o 4o of awater-distributing' device placed over gas and the vessel2 rises. Thesponge 12 bethe carbid-'containing vessel. ing released from pressure,the flow of water In operating devices for generating acetyceases, andall that is in the vicinity of the lene gas a principal impediment is toso regusponge 12 is absorbed or drawn back, arresting late thewater-supply that the gas generated instantly the water-supply. When thesupply 95 will correspond to the amount'consumed,and of gas becomessufficiently exhausted, the vesthus dispense with large storing vesselsand sel 2 again descends by the weight lof water their attendantdevices. Valves and adj ustin the vessel L1 until the upward'pr'essureon able apertures of all kinds are liable to ob! the stem 121 raises thevalve 18 and permits struction and are not capable of instant efsomewater from the Vessel 2 to escape into Ioo 5o fect in arresting thewater-supply. In the the disk 15, which, as seen in Fig. I, is madeconstruction shown this impediment is not of a dished form and providedwith perforations 19` The Water thus supplied falls on and againsaturates the sponge 12. The vessel 2 then rises, releasing the spring12 and closing the valve 18, ready for another motion, as has beendescribed.

The valve 18, when not raised by pressure of the disk 15 on the sponge12, is held shut by a coiled spring 20, that is made of a strength orstiffness in proportion to the amount and weight of water in the vessel4.

It will be seen that the amount of water in the vessel 4 determines thepressure on the gas contained in the vessel 2 and is consequentlyadjustable at will, also that all the Water-ducts are free and large,with no risk of obstruction, as in the case of small apertures orregulating-cocks partially open. The sponge 12 can be substituted by anycompressibleand absorbent material, butasponge is most suitable. Thestops 22 and 23 are provided to determine the upward range of the diskand the Valve 1S.

Having thus explained the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an acetylene-generator, a carbid-containing vessel, movablesuperimposed gasholding and water-containing vessels, waterpassages fromthe latter to the carbid-containing vessel and a sponge or otherabsorbent body interposed in these water passages which by pressureautomatically applied thereon when the bell descends supplies water tothe carbid and by release of pressure absorbs and arrests thewater-supply, substantially as specified.

2. In an acetylene-generator, the tank vessel 1,' movable gas-holdingvessel 2, a water vessel mounted on the latter and a Valve thereinadapted to be raised and opened by the weight and downward movement ofthe gas-holding and water-containing vessels and in combinationtherewith the open vessel 10 and sponge 12 in the water-circuit wherebythe supply of water is regulated and arrested, in the mannersubstantially as specified.

3. In an acetylene-generator, the annular tank vessel 1, movablegas-holding and water-containing vessels 2 and 4, valve in thewater-containing Vessel and means for automatically controlling the Sameby the rising and falling of the said vessels, carbid-containing vessel3 and the radial water-diusing devices 9 and l0, the latter restingloosely on the top of the carbid vessel 3, all combined and operatingsubstantially as specified.

4. In an acetylene-generator, the annular tank vessel l, the invertedgas-holding vessel 2 therein, the superimposed water-containing vessel 4having in the bottom a valve with a downward-projecting stem, a coiledspring around the stem to hold the valve shut, a sponge 12, awater-diffusing device for holding the sponge and the disk 15 adapted topress upon and expel water from the sponge 12 and also open the valve,combined and operating substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

VICTOR T. VEATHERS.

NVitnesses:

S. M. COCHRAN, FRANK FREE.

